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Israel’s war of words with Lebanon intensified on Thursday, as Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak vowed his country would meet any military provocation with “all necessary force” and objected to Hizbullah’s participation in the cabinet. In an interview with Israeli public radio, Barak said “we cannot accept that a neighboring UN member state should have in its government representatives of a militia that has more than 40,000 rockets”.

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